Uplink: Hacker Elite

Only you can save the Internet in this original adventure/strategy hybrid.
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You're a hotshot computer hacker in the year 2010 -- an Uplink Agent, an expert in computer espionage employed by major corporations. You make your living by circumventing security systems, stealing important data, framing innocents, and disposing of the evidence. Invest your profits in better computer systems and tools to pull off ever more complicated and dangerous hacks. As your skills develop, you can attempt big jobs like influencing the stock market or creating the world's most devastating computer virus. Uplink's presentation of the world of hacking is perhaps more glamourous than the real thing, but has a core basis in reality.

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Original gameplay players have the opportunity to be freelance hackers; freeform gameplay accept the missions that you want to play; neuromancer rating let your morals guide you; save the net or watch processors melt. Uplink offers two totally different paths to l33t hacker status; exciting missions crack a bank; hack a rival into jail; crash the stock market; and get out before you're caught; thrilling action players have to make those last 15 seconds count and feel the tension rise; as their signal is traced; deep plot the computer underground can be a dangerous place; especially if you've got to stop the world's deadliest virus; choose your os runs on windows and linux.